Health and Medicine
This subject area encompasses research and studies in the field of human medicine.
Among the wide-ranging list of topics covered here are anesthesiology, anatomy, surgery, human genetics, hygiene and environmental medicine, internal medicine, neurology, pharmacology, physiology, urology and dental medicine.
MS drug helps reduce vision loss
The analyses were performed on data from the AFFIRM and SENTINEL studies, which involved 2,138 men and women with relapsing multiple sclerosis from clinics in…
Progress toward a targeted therapy for a specific form of leukemia
The scientists have discovered that patients in this group have a duplication of the MYB gene, which increases MYB concentrations. Further research has…
Blame the brain for high blood pressure
Dr. Hidefumi Waki, working in a research group led by Professor Julian Paton, has found a novel role for the protein, JAM-1 (junctional adhesion molecule-1),…
Stress affects healing of burns
Even though few people suffer burns in Sweden, about 16 per 10,000 inhabitants, burn treatment occupies a unique position in health care. First, a major burn…
Information processing in the central nervous system, the signalling system controlling movement
Interneurones in the spinal cord integrate command signals from the brain, with information from the senses, and their own internal pattern generating…
High Levels of Antibodies. Low Levels of Cancer?
The results are now being published in Cancer Research and are part of a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. The antibodies produced during the…